Two people can edit announcement/event/etc. at the same time.

[tdacquisto]

Hi all,
While in Sharepoint, two people can be editing the same announcement/event/other web part at the same time... Nothing prevents this.

For example..

If a co-worker is editing ANNOUNCEMENT 1, I can go to the portal, edit the same announcement and it will not let me know that my co-worker is editing it.

My co-worker could save his change and then I could save MY change and wipe his change out.

Is there a way to prevent this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Tom.

 

[Thomas2000]

Hello,

One way of doing it is to set it that the users only have permissions to edit their own announcements, events. I have had the same issues as you describe and I did not find another "easy" way of preventing it (although I did not investigate it very much).

Regards,
Thomas

 

[kkom]

hey,
sorry this is not to reply to your question.

as i see, i think you have allready a lot of experiences with SPS2003. May be you can help me to with this question:

"Find out Webpart and change it: How?"
I post it in the forum!

pleace help.
kkom

 

[tdacquisto]

Hi Thomas,

this will work for most cases, but when creating an event and then creating a workspace site for that event which would have attendees, agenda, etc. always multiple people are needed to be in there to make changes..

I've poked all over the net and there doesn't seem to be any way around it... I was thinking there could be a "read only" message when someone goes to edit a webpart that is already being edited...

Thanks for the reply!

Tom.